37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation
A Chief Architect's Journey
As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of architects also changes. Rather than focus on software architecture alone, they must connect the penthouse, where the business strategy is set, and the engine room, where the enabling technology is implemented. Learn how to ride this Architect Elevator!
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As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of architects also changes. Rather than focus on software architecture alone, they must connect the penthouse, where the business strategy is set, and the engine room, where the enabling technology is implemented. Learn how to ride this Architect Elevator!
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Note: This book has evolved into The Software Architect Elevator, which contains 5 new chapters and many edits. It's available from Amazon and the O'Reilly Learning Platform.
The Changing Role of IT
Many large enterprises are feeling pressure from the rapid digitalization of the world: digital disruptors attack unexpectedly with brand-new business models; the "FaceBook generation" has dramatically different user expectations; and a whole slew of new technologies has become available to everyone with a credit card. This is tough stuff for enterprises that have been, and still are, very successful, but are built around traditional technology and organizational structures. "Turning the tanker", as the need to transform is often described, has become a board room-level topic in many traditional enterprises. Not as easily done as said.
The Changing Role of Architects
Chief IT Architects and CTOs play a key role in such a digital transformation endeavor. They combine the technical, communication, and organizational skill to understand how a tech stack refresh can actually benefit the business, what "being agile" and "DevOps" really mean, and what technology infrastructure is needed to assure quality while moving faster. Their job is not an easy one, though: they must maneuver in an organization where IT is often still seen as a cost center, where operations means "run" as opposed to "change", and where middle-aged middle-management has become cozy neither understanding the business strategy nor the underlying technology. It's no surprise then that IT architects have become some of the most sought-after IT professionals around the globe.
What You Will Learn
This book supports IT architects with the skills necessary to become effective not just in systems architecture, but also in shaping and driving the necessary transformation of large-scale IT departments. In today’s world, technical and organizational transformation have become inseparable. Organized into 37 episodes, this book explains:
- The role and qualities of an architect in a large enterprise
- Architecture at enterprise scale
- Communicating to a variety of stakeholders
- Understanding organizational structures and systems
- Transforming traditional organizations
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Gregor Hohpe
Gregor Hohpe advises CTOs and senior IT executives on IT strategy, cloud architecture, and organizational transformation. He served as advisor to the Singapore government, chief architect at Allianz SE, and technical director at Google Cloud’s CTO Office.
He is widely known as co-author of the seminal book “Enterprise Integration Patterns” and as frequent speaker at conferences around the world. His accessible, but technically accurate essays were republished in “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know” and “Best Software Writing”. He is an active member of the IEEE Software editorial advisory board.
Episode 277
An Interview with Gregor Hohpe
Contents
Table of Contents
About this Book
Fifty Shades of IT
- Architects
The Architect Elevator
Movie Star Architects
Enterprise Architect or Architect in the Enterprise?
An Architect Stands on Three Legs
Making Decisions
Question Everything
- Architecture
Your Coffee Shop Does Not Use 2-Phase Commit
Is this Architecture?
Every System is Perfect…
Code Fear Not!
If You Never Kill Anything, You Will Live Among Zombies
The IT World is Flat
Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job
If Software Eats the World, Better Use Version Control!
- Communication
Explaining Stuff
Writing for Busy People
Emphasis over Completeness
Show the Kids the Pirate Ship!
Sketching Bank Robbers
Diagram-Driven Design
Drawing the Line
- Organizations
Control is an Illusion
They don’t build’em quite like that anymore
Black Markets Are Not Efficient
Scaling an Organization
Slow Chaos is not Order
Governance Through Inception
- Transformation
No Pain, no Change!
Leading Change
Economies of Speed
The Infinite Loop
You can’t fake IT
Money can’t buy Love
Who Likes Standing in Line?
Thinking in Four Dimensions
- Architecting IT Transformation
All I Have to Offer Is the Truth
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